Camtasia Relay

Getting Started

Camtasia Relay allows any faculty or staff member at Cuyamaca
College to easily create video recordings that captures their
computer screen while recording their voice. This program can be
accessed from anywhere, including the classroom, office, or
at home. You can have it installed on every computer you use without
limitation.

There are two parts to Camtasia Relay: the Camtasia Relay website
and the recorder. On the website you can manage your videos and do
closed captioning. The "recorder" records your videos then sends them up to our
Camtasia Relay server for processing.
When finished processing, your video will be published to the Cuyamaca College media server or
YouTube depending on the output profile you select.

Camtasia Relay makes creating captions for hearing-impaired
students an integral part of the production process and can be used
to caption existing video as well. This captioning ability is
provided to help ensure that
all instructional media used at Cuyamaca College meets ADA
requirements for accessibility as required by state and federal law.

This service is available to any Cuyamaca College employee at no
charge. Just send an email using your campus email address to
rhonda.bauerlein@gcccd.edu
and request an account. Campus
email addresses must be used for communications with Camtasia
Relay.

Get Link to Video

Click the link to go to the presentation (do not copy link from Outlook!)

Copy link and add as a web link in Blackboard

Set Up YouTube

If you haven't already done so, you will need to create your own Google (Google owns YouTube) account. I would suggest that you use a different account for teaching than you
use for personal videos. You can create a new Google account at https://accounts.google.com/SignUp.

When do you need to caption?

"Per Section 508 guidelines, video files should always be captioned whenever possible, and in most situations they MUST be captioned. Generally speaking, if the video has audio and it
will be stored for later or repeated use in a course, it must be captioned. It does not matter if the video is instructor or institution owned, or if it is a collection of clips and snippets; whatever video
will be shown in a classroom, placed on a public website, or used in any open forum, needs to be captioned.

In order to use non-captioned video, the video must be contained in a secure, password-protected environment, there must be no students requiring captioning, and the video can only be used for a single term.
Other exclusions to captioning include student work and raw footage that will never be archived after the current use, as well as video with foreign language subtitles."